Chapter 574
Michael pretended to be nonchnt as he asked Nichs, “Nichs, who fixed you?”
Nichs responded, feeling overjoyed, “It was Uncle Linus who did it!”
Then, Michael sternly stared at him and responded, “Linus wasn’t even home that day!”
Nichs replied obstinately, “Hmph. You’re lying to me! Uncle Linus was home the whole time. If you
don’t believe me, go and check with Nate! It was Uncle Linus who fixed me, and he even added new
features to my functionality so that I could help Mom fight the bad guys!”
Staring at Nichs, Michael decided to stop probing into this matter.
“Nichs, go and spend time with your Mom.”
Nichs said happily, “Alright. I’ll go now.”
Sitting on the chair where Elizabeth used to sit, Michael attempted to analyze everything that took ce
that day.
Since Nichs was a robot, his memory could bepromised and altered.
Reckoning that Linus was definitely not home that day, Michael supposed that it had to be someone else
who fixed Nichs.
Right at this moment, Michael recalled hearing from Sophia that on that same day, Linus drove home
one of his hometown friends who was visiting him, and he remembered her saying that she even gave
him two red packets before he left.
Word had it that that friend of Linus was better with technology than Linus. Besides, for Linus to let
someone into his workstation, that person must have had a close rtionship with him.
If that person was the person Michael thought of, he reckoned that life would be too cruel to Sophia.
At the same time, Sophia was supervising the workers who were installing grills on the kitchen windows.
At the same time, she tried cleaning the room that was messed up by the street bum.
Sophia had no idea how the street bum got in, but judging from how dirty the room was, that person must
have lived there for at least a couple of days.
Fortunately, nothing went missing; just that the room itself required some cleaning.
After cleaning Celine’s room, it was almost mealtime. Since everyone looked busy, Sophia volunteered to
go out to get some food.
Bringing Nichs along, Sophia went out with Hale to get some food, but because the garage was full,
upon getting some food, they had to park somewhere nearby and walk home from there. In an olive-
colored coat, she carried a few long bread loaves while Hale carried a few bags with him as he followed
her; he carried enough food to feed ten people.
After walking just a couple of steps, Nichs asked Sophia, “Mom, there’s someone in front of us.”
Sophia looked up and saw a woman curled up next to the fence. She was so dirty that one could hardly
tell the color of her clothes, and there was also ayer of brown smudge covering her face. Given how
disheveled her hair was, Sophia almost could not tell if she was male or female.
The temperature was almost freezing, so the bum was shivering. Right at this point, she was staring at
the patch in front of her with her zed eyes while she mumbled something. It appeared that she was
not mentally stable.
Seeing this, Sophia had the realization that she was the street bum that barged into Celine’s ce!
She looked pitiful and was probably so desperate that she decided to barge into the house.
As such, Sophia instructed Nichs to bring one of the long bread loaves to her. Upon receiving it, she
quickly and firmly grabbed the loaf with her dirty hands and started stuffing it into her mouth.
While walking past the woman, Sophia subconsciously threw her a nce. She looks rather young, and
it must be because of some mental disability that she ended up like that. It’s dangerous for a young
woman to be wandering outside by herself. Seeing her reminded Sophia of her time when she wandered
off and lived inside the bridge hole. She dared not fall asleep as she was afraid that the other bums
mighte and steal her belongings. That aside, she might even have been…
Sophia recalled that after one of the bums stole her nket, that night, she also curled up in the bridge
hole next to the river as she shivered. There was also a retarded bum that tried to rape her. If it were not
because of the rocks that she managed to pick up by the river and used to injure him in the head, that
person would not have run off.
However, her nket could never be found. Since she could not afford to get a new nket, she ended
up guarding the trash pile in that neighborhood every day, hoping she would be lucky enough to pick up
someone’s old garments.
When Sophia passed that woman, she kept staring at the coat that Sophia was wearing to the extent that
she stopped eating.
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Seeing this, Sophia sighed. She proceeded to take off her overcoat and passed it to her. Even though
the woman might have been mentally disabled, she was nheless a human being who could feel cold.
The woman draped the olive-colored coat over herself and continued munching away at the bread.
Sophia reckoned that the woman must have felt bitterly cold.
Upon entering the house, Sophia said to Hale, “Please call the orphanage owned by Nicole’s younger
sister; I believe they need some extra help. You can tell them to make some living arrangements for that
woman and let her help them with cleaning or some odd jobs.”
Hale agreed apathetically.
After entering the house, Sophia found herself a new coat. Right at this moment, she heard a loud noise
coming from outside. She then opened the door and saw two other bums who came out of nowhere and
tried to grab the bread and the coat from the woman.
In a fit of rage, Sophia grabbed the broom that she used to clean the room earlier and stormed out of the
house. When she got there, she saw that the two men were touching and grabbing the woman with their
filthy hands.
Meanwhile, the woman clenched the bread between her teeth to prevent it from dropping. While her
mouth was tightly closed, she was sobbing angrily.
“What are you doing?” Sophia growled and ran toward them with a broom in her hand. However, a ck
figure appeared and flexibly yet powerfullynded a kick on one of the men’s heads. That kick sent the
man flying toward the pir at the entrance of the Murray Residence.
Following that, there was a loud bang as his head hit the pir, and specks of blood sshed out of his
head, spattering all over the pir. At that moment, he stopped moving.
At the same time, for reasons unbeknownst to Sophia, the other man’s head appeared underneath the
woman’s underarm. The woman immediatelynded a blow on his head, causing him to fall to the
ground. That man screamed hysterically before she used her elbow to strike his head, and that instantly
silenced his scream.
Everything seemed to have taken ce within a few seconds before the man died. Eventually, Sophia
came back to her senses when his blood reached her feet and she quickly retracted her feet.
All of a sudden, the smell of a stench moved past Sophia and before she realized it, that woman had
already run into the Murray Residence. At this very moment, Hale had juste out of the house.
Seeing that woman, he yelled. Just like that, still having the bread loaf in her mouth, she ran toward
Hale…
When Sophia finally made it back, she saw that Hale, Gary, and Maria were all lying t in the front yard.
Fortunately, they were in a better condition than the two street bums outside the house—at least the
three of them were still breathing.
The three of them could not fight that woman, who could easily defeat them with a blow.
She was incredibly strong…
Nichs then started chasing after that woman while shooting her with silver needles. However, none of
those silver needles managed to hit her.
That woman was incredibly flexible and fast in avoiding all the flying needles. She could run on the walls
as if she had hanging wires attached to her body. After shooting seven or eight needles, each of them
missed the target.
Just like that, that womannded at the tree next to the house. She then stepped on the tree to use that
as a springboard for her to jump to the second floor. Right then, she broke the windows with a punch and
leaped into the room. This whole time, that bread loaf was in her mouth.
These scenes that seemed straight out of an action movie startled Sophia so much that she even
dropped the broom in her hands.